I see you have used a lot of practice questions in your preparation. Which are the best books to read for this exam in your opinion? I may revisit windows networking when I get a chance but would like some advice on appropriate study books. Man it's been ages since I did an MS cert.

Make sure you have PLENTY of HANDS ON as well . When you take your exam, take your time, read every word carefully because this exam will throw you off with alot of unnecessary keywords. Then you are good to go.

I see you have used a lot of practice questions in your preparation. Which are the best books to read for this exam in your opinion? I may revisit windows networking when I get a chance but would like some advice on appropriate study books. Man it's been ages since I did an MS cert.

TIA

I kinda liked MS-Press so far, but for video I prefer Train Signal, I have a lab a real lab not a VM I currently have 4 servers 1 client 2 switches one of em is a manageable cisco 2948 I also have 5 static routable IP from my ISP DSL Extreme.

I was at question 20, then notice I only have 2 hours left the time ticking started psyching me out and it was my first time to drink a lot of coffee, then I started shaking, I couldn't even focus and breathe I felt like fainting and can't even concentrate on reading one line, my girlfriend told me that coffee makes some people jittery, it was not what I expected fromy myself, , it seems myself was my biggest challenged not the beast, when I stood up I have to hold on the chair cause I was about to collapse.

Anyway a fail is a fail, tons of WSUS, hope this helps out other prospective takers, you must know WSUS inside out.

Sorry you didn't pass. Coffee tends to enhance whatever your mood happens to be at the time. If you're in a good mood, it makes you feel even better. If' you're grumpy, it makes you mean. If you're nervous, well it magnifies that too.

dang network monitor is on there also? I was just hoping I could skip that section of the book for the time being in regards to IPsec should I be keen on remembering the super granular stuff that one would never keep memorized or would a solid foundational understanding of using IPsec in Windows suffice? I have DNS and WSUS about bleeding out of my brain, I have caught myself doing word associating using zone terms with other real world scenarios "Hah, your such a read only copy, nothing more then a secondary zone.." insults like that.. I am going bonkers.

RRAS and IPsec are a little tougher to find tons of interest in but whatever I spose..

dang network monitor is on there also? I was just hoping I could skip that section of the book for the time being in regards to IPsec should I be keen on remembering the super granular stuff that one would never keep memorized or would a solid foundational understanding of using IPsec in Windows suffice? I have DNS and WSUS about bleeding out of my brain, I have caught myself doing word associating using zone terms with other real world scenarios "Hah, your such a read only copy, nothing more then a secondary zone.." insults like that.. I am going bonkers.

RRAS and IPsec are a little tougher to find tons of interest in but whatever I spose..

Congrats on the pass btw, nice it only took you twice

RRAS was my lowest score, about 83 % on the scale, solid foundational understanding of a particular subject is always the best way to really understand it, but to pass IPsec you gotta be a "BIT" granular as well, just make sure you can go back to NT 4.0 and still be able to use a security/encryption. I hate seeing ipsec questions on my exams and those annoying counters on network monitor, it bleeds my eyes haha.

My plan is to self-study an MCP topic from Friday - Monday every week then take the exam on Tuesday.

Did first one last weekend, and passed 70-290 with a score of 880

Thought Id attempt the 70-291 this weekend gone (due to the fact that alot of people seem to be classing this as a difficult exam to pass, so I just wanted it out the way). But failed today with a score of 680 (so close lol).

Anyways, how long do you have to wait before you can resit? and for you guys who have passed this on second attempt, are the questions fairly similar to the first time you tried, or were they all completly differant?

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